"In the last few hours of our journey a yellow skinned Kazak youth of twenty six got in our compartment. He was excited to learn that I had seen the Turk-Sib railway at its beginning. He said, "I was a boy of thirteen when they started to build the railway, a starving shepherd boy who had never been to school. I came to beg for a job on the road and they put me in the railway school and fed and trained me. When the Turk- Sib opened, I was sixteen, fit for a semiskilled job. I kept on working and studying; the railway gives you every chance. Now, at twenty-six, I have a good job in the maintenance de- partment. Turk-Sib is my father and my life."

- Anna Louise Strong
The Soviets Expected It.

How industry was seen as more than just a job or a wage in the Soviet Union. It was seen as their life-blood. The power of the workers was harnessed to such a fantastic effect.

Recall the #US #propaganda in 1990 of #Iraq-i soldiers throwing #Kuwaiti babies out of their incubators.

Here we are 34 years later. US enabled this.
#Gaza

🇮🇷 A violent explosion rocks the city of Shahriar, west of the Iranian capital, Tehran

@stayfreeworld

Netanyahu’s son seen hiding in Florida, away from Gaza war zone: Report

🔹Benjamin Netanyahu’s son has been seen hiding out – and draft dodging amid the Israeli military’s bloody campaign in Gaza – in an expensive rented apartment in a high-rise building in Florida.

#PressTV - #Palestine

Trees bearing the slogans written by the anti-Japanese guerrillas in praise of Kim Jong Il as the Shining Star

Ice on the River Mersey...14th February 1895.

Air Spying Brings War Clouds to Korean Peninsula: KCNA Commentary
Pyongyang, February 17 (KCNA) -- Entering February, spying of the air pirates of the U.S. and puppet ROK against the DPRK have got ever more pronounced.

RC-135U, a U.S. air force reconnaissance plane, after taking off in the Kadena air force base in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, on February 6, flew over the east and west seas of the Korean peninsula for a long time to spy on the strategic depth area of the DPRK. The next day, RC-135W was keen on spying on military installations from the sky above the vicinity near the southern border of the DPRK.

This was joined by the puppet military gangsters that extensively spied on inland areas of the DPRK by mobilizing Global Hawk, a high-altitude reconnaissance drone, and E-737 AWACS, on the plea of coping with any "possibility of provocation" by someone during the lunar New Year's Day.

What merits special attention is that the espionage by the air pirates has been conducted almost every day since the beginning of the new year and the enemies intentionally revealed their vapour trails to provoke the DPRK.

Such various air reconnaissance assets' undisguised spying above the Korean peninsula, on which there exists constant possibility of military clashes, constitutes a clear threat to the DPRK and a grave provocation driving the regional situation into an irrevocably catastrophic one.

Moreover, such espionage acts getting more undisguised beyond the wartime level are in concert with the U.S. and puppet forces' joint or unilateral military exercises which are staged on and around the Korean peninsula almost every day, only to escalate danger.

The reality clearly shows once again who brings the dark clouds of a nuclear war to the Korean peninsula.

We keep an eye on the reckless military moves of the enemies escalating the danger of war and are fully ready for war to strike and annihilate the enemies at any moment if they dare to provoke us.

It is quite obvious what danger will be entailed when the spy planes of enemy states approach the airspace of their rival.

A saying goes that a tiger moth fond of playing with fire is bound to perish in the flames. The air pirates will not escape the fate of such tiger moth. -0-

www.kcna.kp (Juche113.2.17.)

Mt Paektu, Sacred Mountain of Korean Revolution
Mt. Paektu is the sacred place in which the Korean revolution was started and its rosy future foreseen and the sacred mountain representing the revolutionary stamina and immortal revolutionary spirit of Korea. -0-